by .famvin | Aug 10, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
On this Friday, a quick video message from Mark McGreevy of Depaul International.
by John Freund, CM | Aug 10, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
All our Vincentian Family heroes and heroines needed the oxygen of a clear vision of who called them and what was their mission… Something that comes in prayerful awareness. How did they replenish their spiritual oxygen sources?
by Jim Paddon | Aug 9, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
Deep in the heart of Texas, the government of the Unites States of America operates immigrant detention centres. Many countries have immigration detention centres, including Canada, but the Texas centres are operated in a very different way. They make a point of...
by Guillermo Campuzano | Aug 9, 2018 | News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
The 5000 indigenous peoples scattered throughout the earth (90 countries), with their thousand-year-old cultures and languages (7000), are a permanent memory to humanity that nature is still waiting, it cries out, for our ecological conversion. This is the...
by Pat Griffin, CM | Aug 8, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
A Vincentian View: “For the Greater Glory of God” A week or so ago, I had the opportunity to preach on the memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola. As might be expected, I began to think about the Jesuits and then I toyed with the idea of how many Jesuits I could list. ...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 8, 2018 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
Are we ready to leave the box of our normal thinking and to find the opportunity that lies disguised in this challenge? Show us the truth that will set us free.
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Aug 7, 2018 | Formation, Social, Social Media
Why do I talk about Instagram and not SnapChat? Because every demographic needs their social media channel where I don’t bother them!
by Ross Dizon | Aug 7, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the living bread that came down from heaven. The hungry who eat him, the Word made flesh, will live forever. They murmur about Jesus because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They behave as those hungry people who complained against God...
by Elizabeth Astridge | Aug 7, 2018 | News
PARIS (CNS) — As Europe continues to struggle with migrant and refugee arrivals, Catholics in the French capital are heeding Pope Francis’ call to come to their aid by providing practical and spiritual help to the newcomers. A key figure coordinating...
by Di Trapani, CM | Aug 6, 2018 | Disasters and Responses, Formation, News
“There is still a beautiful Italy, ready to welcome, to integrate, to give work, to help these people, be they refugees, asylum seekers or simply ‘economic migrants.’ An Italy that goes on thanks to their work, will, sacrifice. They are men and women...